Hon Hai, Mozilla Plan Mobile Devices

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... I ... Foxconn is teaming up with is a lot to make some immobile devices welcome to Digits I'm Simon Constable ... email me at Rossi of The will Street gentle joining us now from sentences go a man a ... great story tell us more about this ... this is all about the race for number theory who's going to be ... the third biggest supplier of software for mobile devices right now you've got ... enjoyed me Baidu ... and you've got Apple with the I phone ... all these other companies out there including Micra soft are trying to be Number three Mozilla thinks they can be number three ... to the announcement that's coming up on Mondays at Foxconn which is known for making the I phone is can it say that is leading the team ... I devices that are based on Mozilla's Firefox operating system needs to do so for its clients which include companies like Sony ... and ZTE ... and Huawei and other manufacturers that use Fox are Foxconn to build these devices to Foxconn is going to say that it has designs available and ready ... for its clients to make these that make these devices that are powered by a Firefox user to the lower cost devices were talkin a device is indeed going to go into emerging ... markets as you know there were only like a billion smartphones that it sold so far since huge market opportunity all around the world ... and Mozilla's hoping that that you need to be number three ... after Android and Apple ... it's a it's a brutal market but the smartphone business whether its operating system has announced two weeks liao ... these new devices will not be marketed under the faux conman willies ... that's correct that's correct Foxconn ... Kai is that what's known as an ODM in Meeks ... devices for other companies like Sony while Wayne CTV ... and other sis going to be doing that here in it's basically announcement of the world we are willing and ready and able ... to make Firefox devices in for Mozilla says you know this is important ... they're kind of screwed if they don't create a viable mobile operating system they are ... in a note for the Firefox browser which is a very popular ... but on mobile devices you know it's nowhere near where it needs to be ... I've Gruebel has Chrome which it promotes the Android ... and Apple Safari which it promotes through all the Apple devices and was ill in order to really be able to survive into the future house to have a mobile distribution play so that's why ... it has this ... time this operating system ... no one important thing to say is this is all related to HTML five is that these are not traditional devices that have ... I'm native applications that you download the emphasis here ... is on a steal off I was using blab development way which school confusing but basically ... this company is trying to create devices that enable people to go on to websites and you use web ... applications like the with native applications that are downloaded and that's why these these guys devices are actually a lot less expensive ... than your I phone or Android devices Mount Folkestone is famous for manufacturing on I Phones Simons of things on this pen loss of ... control the sea of or around folks on ... aam what what it is the benefit from the sale and done with Foxconn is it that manufacturing expertise ... yes absolutely and Foxconn really has come about a seal of approval ... they got all these big clients all around the world they are the biggest manufacturers in the world ... use them to create devices sure there's been some controversy with their working conditions ... but they make the I phone so it's it's really not about association ... and on about Association of school and when will we see these devices are ... aam coming out ... we're really seeing them later this year about Mozilla ... has already talked about its partners like algae in ZTE and Huawei making devices that will come out later this year ... so we should expect them you know I'd pour towards the soars the fall ... I think that ... really AB this is a massive massive opportunity to really act of ... easy to forget ... that so few people actually have smartphones ... and when you think about all the opportunity it's out there in emerging markets ... in really odd makes sense that there will be other players besides Apple and Google's Android ... I've that will be a player ... interesting stuff was but that the thingy ran much MAF Rossi of The will Street gentle we appreciate time